Japan: research team to use monkeys for bird flu tests
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 30, 2006 from AFP via Yahoo news (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060729/hl_afp/healthflujapanva)
A team of Japanese reseachers plans to use monkeys for testing the effectiveness of a vaccine against the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
Researchers from Hokkaido University and the Shiga University ... Asian countries made plans to join forces to fight the H5N1 virus
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 29, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Asian countries hit by bird flu made plans on Friday to join forces to fight the H5N1 virus, which killed a teenager in Thailand and was found in chickens in Laos this week.
It was the first human case ... Laos: UN body says H5N1 bird flu found on the poultry farm
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 28, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
The H5N1 bird flu virus has been found on a poultry farm in Laos, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.
The outbreak occurred on a commercial farm 25 km (15 miles) south of ... Thailand: The Ministry of Public Health declared the first avian influenza patient in third epidemic in Pichit province
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 27, 2006 from MOPH, Thailand (via http://thaigcd.ddc.moph.go.th/AI_pressrelease_060720_En.html)
The Ministry of Public Health declared the first avian influenza patient in third epidemic in Pichit province. Having been taken care of intensively, he is in critical condition and Dengue co-infection ... WHO to observe Chinese tests on 2003 bird flu case
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 26, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
China has invited UN experts to observe its tests to verify findings by eight Chinese scientists that a man who died in late 2003 contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus, the World Health Organization said ... Thailand reports first bird flu death in over seven months
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 26, 2006 from AFP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060726/sc_afp/healthfluthailan)
Thailand has reported its first bird flu death in over seven months but authorities insisted they could contain the outbreak, with health officials going on high alert.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ... Launch of global early warning system for animal diseases transmissible to humans
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 26, 2006 from OIE (via http://www.oie.int/eng/press/en_060724.htm)
Geneva, Rome, Paris: A global early warning system for animal diseases transmissible to humans (zoonoses) was formally launched this week in WHO, Geneva by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), ... OIE: Highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry in Thailand (Pichitr province)
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 25, 2006 from OIE (via http://www.oie.int/Messages/060724THA.htm)
Highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry in Thailand
(Date of previous outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry in Thailand reported to the OIE: November 2005).
Information ... Thailand: H5N1 virus outbreak confirmed in Phichit
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 25, 2006 from Bangkok Post (via http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/25Jul2006_news03.php)
The eight-month bird flu-free hiatus in Thailand ended yesterday as the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry confirmed a fresh outbreak of the H5N1 virus in the northern province of Phichit. The confirmation ... Thailand: More suspected bird-flu cases emerged
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 24, 2006 from Xinhua News Agency (via http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/24/content_4871468)
Three more people with suspected bird-flu have been reported in Phichit, one of the provinces listed by the Thai government as an avian-flu "red zone", local media Monday reported.
Two ... China: A H5N1 outbreak reported in Akesu city of Xinjiang
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 21, 2006 from MOA
A H5N1 HPAIV outbreak reported in Akesu city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,where 3045 poultry died and 356976 poultry were culled.An emergency mechanism has been launched and the local veterinary ... Bulgaria finds avian flu in domestic birds
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 21, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Bulgaria said on Thursday it had detected bird flu in three backyard farms in a village in the south of the country near to the Turkish border and suspected it was the feared H5N1 strain of the virus. ... WHO: Avian influenza-situation in Indonesia-update 23
submitted by kickingbird at Jul, 20, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_07_20/en/print.html)
The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed the country's 54th case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The case, which was fatal, occurred in a 44-year-old man from East Jakarta, ... Caribbean: conference on Avian flu
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 19, 2006 from Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (via http://www.cbc.bb/content/view/6475/45/)
Local and regional health and agricultural officials are meeting in Barbados to map out a preparedness and prevention plan for the avian pandemic influenza.The one-week meeting at the Sherbourne Conference ... OFFLU Network on Avian Influenza
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 18, 2006 from Emerg Infect Dis, 2006 Aug (via http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no08/06-0380.htm)
OFFLU is the name of the network of avian influenza expertise inaugurated jointly in 2005 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organisation for Animal Health. ... Italy: a simulation exercise on avian influenza will take place this week
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 17, 2006 from OIE
Dr Romano Marabelli, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Health, Italy, informed the OIE that a simulation exercise on avian influenza will take place in his country from 18 to 21 July 2006.
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Animal ... Thailand puts 7 provinces on bird flu watch list
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 17, 2006 from Reuters (via http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=globalNe)
Thailand has stepped up bird flu surveillance in seven provinces for the hot, monsoon season when the virus could re-emerge, a senior government official said on Saturday.
"July is a risky month. Over ... Indonesia: a 44-year-old man died from bird flu, total to 42
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 16, 2006 from AP (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060716/ap_on_he_me/indonesia_bi)
A 44-year-old man died of bird flu in Indonesia, a senior health official said Sunday, putting the country on the cusp of being the world's hardest hit by the disease.
If the diagnosis by a local lab ... WHO:Avian influenza-situation in Indonesia-update 22
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 15, 2006 from WHO (via http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_07_14/en/print.html)
The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed the country's 53 rd case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
The case, which was fatal, occurred in a 3-year-old girl from a suburb ... Iraq: Detection of a Qinghai-like avian influenza, subtype H5N1 virus from domestic cats (Felis domesticus) in Kurdish area
submitted by wanglh at Jul, 14, 2006 from Genbank (via http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?db=nucleotide)
Genbank recently reviced a submission of NA sequence from Lab in Cairo, Egypt. Influenza A virus (A/cat/Iraq/820NAMRU3/2006(H5N1))
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